Although he dabbles in dragons with the hit HBO series
Game of Thrones and the series of novels on which it is based,
George R.R. Martin qualifies as a dinosaur when he writes.

“I actually have two computers,” the author said on the Tuesday episode of
Conan. “I have a computer I browse the Internet with and I get my email on and I do my
taxes on. And then I have my writing computer, which is a DOS machine, not connected to the
Internet. I use WordStar 4.0 as my word-processing system.”

The program, popular in the 1980s, lacks a spell-checking system — making it perfect for the
creator of characters such as Daenerys Targaryen.

“It does everything I want a word-processing program to do, and it doesn’t do anything else,”
Martin told host
Conan O’Brien. “I hate some of these modern systems where you type a lowercase
letter and it becomes a capital letter. . . . If I wanted a capital, I would have typed a
capital."

Martin, 65, is reportedly still at work on
The Winds of Winter, the next novel in the “Song of Ice and Fire” series.